This year marks the 30th year of Dairy Queen’s partnership with Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. The chain has raised $100 million in support of the organization.

The fifth annual Lake Arrowhead Brew Fest is set for noon to 6 p.m. Aug. 9 in the Blue Jay Village parking lot, 27264 Highway 189.

Presale tickets are available now and cost $30 (plus $2.64 service fee) for general admission and $15 (plus $1.82 service fee) for designated drivers.

General admission tickets include entrance, unlimited beer tastings and a souvenir glass for the first 1,000 attendees. Designated driver tickets include entrance and unlimited soft drinks. Plus, presale ticket holders will be allowed to check-in beginning at 11:30 a.m.

General admission tickets will be $35 at the door.

Those who bring cash or non-perishable food to donate to Operation Provider — an organization that provides food and services for those in need in the San Bernardino Mountains — will have access to select VIP brews.

Although I had only visited the restaurant a handful of times since it opened in 2011, I was a big fan of its more cosmopolitan take on Mexican food.

The closure appears to be the result of the same thing that temporarily closed El Kiosco Mexican Restaurant — also in Rialto — back in June: A leasing dispute.

We can only hope that the restaurant owners and the landlord can work things out so that the restaurant can reopen. But for now, the restaurant remains closed, with black plastic covering the windows.

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Thanks to reader Scott for letting us know about Sal y Limón.

Also closed is the year-old Church’s Chicken at 1110 S. Mt. Vernon Ave. in Colton.

That area of south Colton seems to be in constant flux, with restaurants (and other businesses) going in and out of business. Prior to that Church’s, the spot was home to one of the many Burger Kings that closed in the Inland Empire in the last couple of years.

There are a few mainstays — Sayaka Japanese Restaurant, Síquio’s, Taco Joe’s — but Church’s is just the latest in a long line of closures.

Another closed Colton Burger King appears to be getting a new life as a Starbucks. Signs are up at the former restaurant at 202 E. Valley Blvd. indicating the transformation.